Christmas Connections: Part 1 of 12
Whether she is a rope or a heifer, this friend of mine occasionally inspires me to think about things I seldom think about. And even, at times, she inspires me to think about things which are quite a bit beyond what I normally think about.
Hence the Greek word πέρδεσθαι, which means 'to break wind'. Someone who does that is called a πέρδιξ — 'windbreaker', I suppose. But that's the word, perdix, from which we get the English 'partridge', presumably because English peasants were better at pronouncing nouns ending in '-ich', '-itch', or '-idge'.
And since the connective heifer has started me off on this first of the twelve days of Christmas, I suppose I will carry on.
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"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree."
Hence the Greek word πέρδεσθαι, which means 'to break wind'. Someone who does that is called a πέρδιξ — 'windbreaker', I suppose. But that's the word, perdix, from which we get the English 'partridge', presumably because English peasants were better at pronouncing nouns ending in '-ich', '-itch', or '-idge'.
And since the connective heifer has started me off on this first of the twelve days of Christmas, I suppose I will carry on.
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"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree."
etched with acid at 4:23:00 pm
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